Marty

“Happy is he alone, to whom the Lord imputeth not
sin. To have Him propitious to me, against whom alone
I have sinned, suffices for all my righteousness. If my
iniquity is great, Thy grace is much greater. When my
soul is troubled at the view of its sinfulness, I look at Thy
mercy , and am refreshed. It is a common good ; is
offered to all ; and he only who rejects it, is deprived of
its benefits. Let him rejoice who feels himself a wretch
deserving of perpetual damnation ; for the grace of Jesus
exceeds the number of all crimes. There is no sin greater
than to despair of the forgiveness of sin ; for God is kind
and merciful, ready to forgive.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

“For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.”
― Horatius Bonar, The Everlasting Righteousness